Storm's a-comin'

666 did interrupt its programming, during the mid-late afternoon – with a storm warning. That’s how I knew about it, and got to Canberra Stadium early.

Perhaps because nothing was going on they decided not to bother?

I heard on 2CA in the car in the arvo. I put 666 on for a while later, when I saw the huge clouds approaching, while the Brumbies game was being broadcast – but in vain.Switched to 2CA but they had stopped giving updates too, they had constant music on. Put on ABC 7pm news, I thought it might be mentioned at the beginning, but no again. Eventually caught it on ch 10 during Jumunji.

By that time I had unplugged the computer.

Broadcasters are going to have to get over themselves and interrupt regular programming – often out of hours – to broadcast updates so people know what’s going on.

The whole of the ACT is a dustbowl. That’s what I meant

Simbo – I’m wiht VG – I’d prefer a mudbowl than the hot dustbowl that we suffer in Gungahlin now. It might allow some trees and plants to grow and offer shade/respite from heat!

You’d prefer to live in a mudbowl for a while, vg?

We got some reasonable rain in Gungahlin, but more would have been nice. Lets hope there’s more to come. I’m sick of living in a dustbowl

Thanks for the heads-up!

It sure came down in Tuggeranong, my rain guage has 12.75mm of rain in it.

It was enough rain such that I decided to wash my cars, and then allow the rain to rinse them off. I got soaked of course!!!!

It belted down in Weston Creek – Brierly St was a river…

And didn’t the cell that came over the Woden area ’bout 6.30pm turn out to be a beauty (by ACT standards anyway). ABCTV also ran a warning across the bottom of the screen – apparently it was a code yellow. Whatever the hell that means! And yeap, I do sit on the BoM site and click refresh. Or run outside and play in the rain. Which worries the neighbours endlessly judging by the numbers of curtains twitching as I peered into stormwater drains and frolicked along the street.

Maybe a link
to the photo will help.

So what do you do when the main street turn into a river? Pity I didn’t have my canoe :/

Not in Gungahlin it ain’t!

ahhhhh, great, i have washing on the line as well 😀 (which is still there, duh, good on me)

Wow, its really bad now!

Aaand it’s bucketing down now.

And it’s dissipated too! Looks pretty heavy in Numerella and Jindabyne, pity it doesn’t look like raining in our water catchments.

666ABC and 2CC also broadcast the announcement. Not sure about the others.

Looking at the weather radar it looks like the main activity is to the north and south of us, there’s a lot happening up near Bigga, Taralga and Crookwell. That being said, one storm cell has already dissipated before turning into scattered showers across Canberra, and another storm cell is developing and heading in our direction.

vg you are soft!

Thankfully I didn’t buy my Brumbies tix in advance. Storm means Foxsports 3 for me

Don’t say you haven’t been warned this time folks… Although I guess they are hoping we are all sitting at home on the ESA/BOM website continually clikcing refresh.